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Letters Paten-t No. 103,623, dated .ll/[ay 31, 1870.

SKATE-PASTENING.

The ,Schedule referred to in these Lettera` Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it mag/concern:

Be it known that I, MOSES ,KINSEL of Newark, in the county of Essex and the State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Skate-Fastening; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescrptiou thereof', which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part ot' thisspecification.

The drawing represents an inverted plan view of my invention.

This invention has for its object to provide a simple and reliable means for-operating the toe-clamps of skates, and consists in the peculiar arrangement of two pairs of pivoted levers, and in the combination therewith of the sliding clamps.

A, in the drawing, represents a portion ofthe footsupport of a skate.

To its under side are pivoted, near to the frontend of the same, two levers, B B, which extend backward, as shown. j

The pivot-pins a. of the levers B are made in form of screws, which pass through longitudinal slot's b of the levers, as shown, allowing longitudinal adj ustmcnt of the levers.

C C are the toe-clamps; their shanks, e, fit into and slide in transverse grooves that are provided in the under side of the plate A A.

A pin, c, projects downward from each shank e, through one of a series of apertures, d, in the levers B. These apertures d are arranged in oblique lines, so that, by fitting the pins c through different ones, the clamps will be adjusted more or less far apart. The levers B are, by means of the jslots l), made longitudinally adjustable, so that thereby either one of the apertures d can be brought in line with and under the pins c. The longitudinal adjustment of the levers B serves, therefore, to regulate the position of the clamps.

Near the back end is, in each. lever B, a longitudi-v about in line with with the two pivots h, the levers B will be swung furthest inward, and the clamps brought as near together as they can be. By turning the levels D with their ends outward, the clamps will be opened. 'The straight slots f permit all the necessary motion of thel levers D.

When the pins g are in line with the two pivots Je, the clamps are closed, but they are locked by carrying the pins g a 'little further than the said line, as indicated in the upper part of the drawing. Thereby the spontaneous opening of the clamps is eiectually prevented.

Having thus describedm y invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The levers B, provided withhthe straight slots at their front ends, and with the apertures d arranged in MQSES KINSEY.

oblique direction, to permit, by their longitudinal adjustinent, the lateral adjustment of the clamps O, as 

